CW Developing Australian YA Paranormal Romance for New Series
CW Developing 'Buffy'-Like
Supernatural Drama 'Embrace'
Based on the Jessica Shirvington book, Bill Laurin and Glenn Davis will adapt the project, which hails from CBS Television Studios and Amblin Television.
The CW is looking for anotherBuffy the Vampire Slayer.
The youth-skewing network has given script orders to supernatural drama Embrace, based on the book by Jessica Shirvington.
The hourlong project is based on the author's young-adult novel and revolves around twentysomething Violet Eden (EDIT: Pretty sure she's a teenager), who discovers that she's half angel and the key to a centuries-old war between fallen angels and their earthly protectors. (Super unique, no?)
Bill Laurin and Glenn Davisare on board to write and executive produce the effort, which hails from CBS Television Studios. Amblin Television's Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank are also on board as executive producers.
Embrace joins the similarly themed supernatural drama Copeland Prep in the network's development pipeline. The Bret Easton Ellis and Fake Empire drama revolves around students at a secondary school so competitive that they're being turned into monsters and spreading the ramifications throughout the town. Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke is on board as an executive consultant. The network is also developing Amazon, a Wonder Woman prequel.
The CW has found success with The Vampire Diaries and other sci-fi fare, includingSupernatural, which returns for its eighth season next month.
I'm getting near to the end of The Sign of Four rn. It's so good.
also, it's sooo awesomely researched, i learned a lot about wwii history.
But also, I am halfway through Paper Towns and I don't think I want to finish it.
...still
So fucking new age ugh
It's like IMO angels are different from vampires/werewolves/etc because the assumption is that they would actually KNOW God. And you can take that down all kinds of crazy roads. Also if I were to meet a vampire I'd be like OH WOW YOU GUYS EXIST? but if I were to meet an angel I'd be like Oh god... the end is nigh isn't it? D:
Which makes it bizarre to me that I write about a winged person.
I wonder if "Violet Eden" also has unique, purple eyes that all her peers make fun
Haven't started yet though it looks lovely and I love gothic novels. Rebecca is one of my faves though I love Rebecca and the narrator can gtfo and diaf
Call me by your name by Andre aciman
The ghost map by Stephen Johnson
Do androids dream of electric sheep
What's yr haul?
It's like roleplaying for the time crunched.
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I hate hate hate it when I go into celeb tags and find all this RP biography bullshit, it makes me irrationally angry
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Although this doesn't sound too bad
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and omg this show on a CW budget lololol
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It's basically a story that takes place during the apocalypse where Angels have been sent down by God, destroying human society. The main character Penryn is trying her best to survive and also protect her mother and sister, the former is a paranoid schizophrenic while the latter has been bound to a wheelchair (and it's hinted that it might be the mother who caused it.) She witnesses and angel, Raffe, getting his wings torn off by other angels. Her family is seen and the angels kidnap her sister. Penryn and Raffe team up so he can find the person to reattach his wings while she hopes to find her sister again.
It's very good and what's great is that the romance really isn't the heart of the story. The two characters have their own goals that they focus on and their bond is slowly developed and subtle, which is why I really like it. The main heroine is pretty kickass and the story itself is very dark.